digits: Second Sony Service Hacked

5/3/2011 2:00PM

Sony said computer hackers breached security for a second online service, gaining access to personal information for an additional 24.6 million customer accounts as part of a broader attack on the company.

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... we tend to Sony the hacking situation is going was not a second time in three seconds of the service is packed with those in China and Sun Princess go by with Darden's Newswires ... in tell us what exactly was hacked to know as I can hack the right ... write to me was that it was in the second half what happened was that ... I'm actually be detected bit ... earlier than the PlayStation Network ... it had ... there was another attack on their credit the same attack but that this that ... you know it was part of a larger attack ... were counting on one ... on and on the surface of the PlayStation ... on our side the Sony online Entertainment ... and what they do with the run multiple times ... Kristen online game so stop with ever Quest which is very popular game ... and um ... they detected as I actually over the weekend and decided to shut it down I'd ... just like they did with the PlayStation Network um what what was taken and the second attack ... um they say that a roughly the same information has been taken out of the names birth dates ... addresses of people who use Sony online Entertainment ... as well as the lead with twelve thousand seven hundred ... non U S credit card ... in time as ... numbers that was from the board data bases in two thousandseven may have also been copper pots ... okay I'm done now so brings the total to one hundred million accounts as Pacquiao which is inevitable black eye ... right ... it's like to block ice Tesla model and the other side of the few things a sunny has actually been doing well for some time it's been well known for ... its ... excellence in software development ... um ... but I think I think there's a lot of theories about who may be responsible for this a ... lot of overlap with the mother not this may be the result of this ... tangle of had with this hacker reverse engineer ... PlayStation three ... um ... I keep claims that there's no denying that no connection to an anonymous is another hacking group this interesting so ... they did that of all why is Sony refusing to testify on it and Apple will testify to what what advice on keeping on ... what what's on what ... what we've heard it said on his bed from from from Congress actually is that they that they said they were just way too busy they're too focused on how to pick out with this pretty profits are ... ants out of channeling all the fallout and so they've said that there to send out a letter to Congress ... actually today ... on answering all the questions that were at ... Southern so they are that they are responding they just somebody was going to take to go to Washington does not wash ... with with with with you ... well ... I mean I suppose but I'm not a lawyer but ... um ... and all my wiper story I wonder if the Agon on Xbox hegemony funding impact without ... bodies Xbox live I wonder and they're all these ... guys ... services Guinea get targeted ... Acitivity somebody walking around saying Rolfe Winkler spending you'll come on and this is my guess is you'll pay what what ... what we might decide to do think that this was with you ... um is that it is is this the sort of thing that could happen to anybody ... any with only logical price and with the sums up the mountain when it was a bit like um what we don't know yet if they were negligent but to ... they have been kind of forthcoming when somebody tells phenomena the technical details as yet ... that you dont wanna necessarily be giving up information based on what to do and don't know ... in the middle of the kid that I think they're still in the middle of the ... economists estimate recap of conservatives ... I think it's ... it's reasonable for them to hold back on their ... I am what was next in this process I know the FBI is involved now what what what was in a maxed out ... steps in the story on ... well I mean among other things were were expecting the weather today so hopefully we're going cure lot about that ... and additionally we still are waiting for the service actually come back on line ... as we talk about a little bit the past ... aam but these networks are still offline we don't know exactly when it did at that time ... of ... its PlayStation Network it's a bit Monane ... with them that the ensuing week ... um and then also there's you know we still haven't actually identify the hackers were ... we don't know how to get it out there's a lot of questions still unanswered ... of wheat the letter they sent to Congress today with the stench of a loaf of white ... hopefully nobody doubts that identity song thank you very much in show ... with Darden's Newswires in San Francisco at john Cephalon the segment what we think the thing is is the science side story I'm wondering how many customers Sony loses ... its meaning the numbers are simply staggering ... and they're a lot of people out there who ... get burned ... may not return ... to me and shutting down ... you know the lighting system ... the street these gamers can be predicted the stand in shutting it down ... iOS was on I was a big hero to Clare Island ... with no two will leave the bathroom while it's been awhile ... since I think